President Robert
Mugabe has ordered the arrest of the entire Zimbabwean Olympic team for failing
to win a medal at the just concluded Rio 2016 Olympics, a report from NTA says.
Mugabe reportedly
instructed the Commissioner General of Zimbabwe Police Republic, Augustine
Chihuri to arrest and detain the whole Zimbabwean Olympic Team members
immediately they arrived the Harare International Airport on Tuesday, August
23.
Zimbabwe presented
a team of 31 athletes at the Olympics. The closest any of the athletes came to
win a contest was at the 8th position.
Incensed with this
performance, Mr. Mugabe reportedly told the Police Chief to arrest all the team
members and detain them.
“We have wasted the
country’s money on these rats we call athletes. If you are not ready to
sacrifice and win even copper or brass medals (referring the 4th and 5th
positions) as our neighbors Botswana did, then why do you go to waste our money”
he said.
”If we needed
people to just go to Brazil to sing our national anthem and hoist our flag, we
would have sent some of the beautiful girls and handsome guys from University
of Zimbabwe to represent us.”
He added that, the
money invested in the team to represent the country could have been used to
provide amenities and build schools.
“This situation is
like an impotent man who is married to five women, what is the essence? I will
make sure we share the cost across board for all of them to pay back to
government chest even if it takes 10 years to recoup, now it turns out to be a
soft loan we have given them to go and visit Brazil as tourist, they are
useless” he concluded.
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